EAGLE COUNTY — Marcus Martinez likes his job enough to show up for work on his 21st birthday, which is more responsible than most of us were.Martinez and several others are part of an apprenticeship program created by the Gallegos Corp., one of the o …

At St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Laura Hamilton met with a doctor Monday afternoon to talk about the impacts of her brain injury. Then she did physical therapy.
The 23-year-old was recovering from a hit-and-run three days earlier that …

GYPSUM – Kelly Bretta says she’s not a fan of the biomass plant next to her home, but that didn’t stop her from strapping on an orange safety vest during a pre-dawn fire and directing firefighters toward a gravel driveway to fight the three-alarm fir …

EAGLE — A former Eagle County government employee has been arrested and charged with embezzling $124,239.
Brenda Wright, 55, of Gypsum, turned herself in Friday and made her first court appearance at 11 a.m., where she was advised that she faces felo …

EAGLE COUNTY — The president’s plan for illegal immigrants may be much ado about nothing, or everything.
“It may make no difference. It may change everything,” said Marian McDonough, with Catholic Charities in its Glenwood Springs office.
She does kn …

VAIL — Julia Cobb was 8 years old when cancer killed her on the last day of her Make A Wish trip to Disney World.
Cancer almost killed Jonathan Cobb, her father, and did kill both her grandmothers.
After nine years of cancer and three family deaths, …

EAGLE - Rodrigo Ivan Aguilar was 17 years old when he stormed into El Jebel Liquors and robbed, threatening the panic-stricken clerk with a gun and a butcher knife.
Aguilar is now 18 and will be at least 24 when he’s released from custody after admit …

GYPSUM — Just because pot is legal in Colorado does not mean you can grow it on someone else’s land.
In the past week, illegal growers walked away from 3,630 marijuana plants worth as much as $8.3 million — 1,000 in Eagle County near Cottonwood Pass, …